Posts Tagged "shuttle"

Imagine a dark haired little girl of not quite four years old, playing outside in a cotton dress in the warm dusk of July 30, 1969, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Me and my little sister, Geri, in New Mexico, where I recall being called in to witness man’s first steps on the moon. Photo: Joanne [...]

Joanne Manaster is a university level cell and molecular biology lecturer with an insatiable passion for science outreach to all ages. Enjoy her quirky videos at www.joannelovesscience.com, on twitter @sciencegoddess and on her Facebook page at JoanneLovesScience Joanne can be found on Twitter as @sciencegoddess.

This morning, the world witnessed the safe landing of the space shuttle Endeavour, after a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. For those of us inhabiting Earth’s more western time zones, we got to watch the landing last night, with no inconvenience, other than having to divert from the Colbert Report. While I did [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The press site here at Kennedy Space Center is buzzing with media, top NASA brass, and at least one celebrity of the furry sort: Elmo. Through a partnership between NASA and Sesame Street, the cuddly red muppet is here to celebrate Thursday’s launch of the Orion crew capsule, which will make its debut [...]

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A at 3:47 P.M. local time on Friday en route to the International Space Station (ISS)—the second-to-last mission for NASA’s 34-year-old shuttle program. On board this time will be a six-member crew commanded by astronaut Mark Kelly (husband of Arizona [...]

Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots. Larry can be found on Twitter as @lggreenemeier.

Like most of us, NASA astronauts have to wake up and get to work—even when they’re in space. So NASA is running a contest to select two new wake-up songs for the STS-134 shuttle crew when it’s at the International Space Station. The winners will be announced and played during the next shuttle mission (NASA’s [...]